Creating Carbide C++

May 12, 2008 S60 Build Performance: Don't Forget to Update Your Makefiles Posted by Tim Kelly at 08:20 AM | Categories: Bugs and Workarounds, Carbide.c++ 1.3.x, FAQ, General, Usability

If you are building scalable (SVG) icons for your S60 application, chances are you are using makefiles without dependency tracking. I've noticed quite a few large projects that contain several icon makefiles without proper dependency tracking which can vastly degrage rebuild performance. For example, taking 15 minutes to rebuild instead of 10 seconds for a dependency check. This is typically due to header files that are always generated under \epoc32\include (e.g. MBG files) and causing subsequent CPP files to be unnecessarily re-compiled and the project re-linked.

You can easily fix this by adding the proper dependency tracking in your make file. For example, in your scalable icons make file:

The old RESOURCE target looked like this:

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RESOURCE : 

	mifconv $(ICONTARGETFILENAME) /h$(HEADERFILENAME) \

            /c12 ..\gfx\image1.bmp \

            /c12,1 ..\gfx\image2.bmp \

            /c16,8 ..\gfx\star.svg

----
Where the fix is like this (the diff is in bold):

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RESOURCE : $(ICONTARGETFILENAME)
$(ICONTARGETFILENAME) : ..\gfx\image1.bmp \
..\gfx\image2.bmp \
..\gfx\star.svg
	mifconv $(ICONTARGETFILENAME) /h$(HEADERFILENAME) \
            /c12 ..\gfx\image1.bmp \
            /c12,1 ..\gfx\image2.bmp \
            /c16,8 ..\gfx\star.svg
----

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